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Does it include PM Prayut making a cameo appearance doing an inspection of the rescue site with his entourage and visiting the kitchen to give cooking advice.

12 minutes ago, champers said:

I thought it was going to be a video from Jeremy Corbyn.

Is this the same Jeremy Corbyn you are referring to who is standing at the Cheshunt London Overground railway Station?

A fine assemblage gathered together to announce the capture of two petty Vietnamese villains.

Can you imagine what how big it would be if they caught a real criminal like Red Bull Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya. 

What about all that Thai Company that ripped thousands of baht from the Chinese tourists for the dud Loy Krathong/Yi Peng celebrations? Will they be given the same publicity?

Thailand celebrates World Dunny Day.

Which reminds me; did the Thai politicians who screamed long and loud ever get those bidet ass sprays that were forgotten when the parliamentary toilets were built? 

If they cannot even manage to plan a toilet properly how on earth can they plan a high speed rail link?

14 hours ago, steven100 said:

This can't be right   !!  must be fake news …...

Because the usual TV farang moaners & whingers keep telling us Thailand is going downhill and everything is bad and the Chinese aren't coming any more ….    lol  

Read the headline.

This story is about well healed business/diplomatic/civil service officials living high on the hog on their expense accounts and floating around the city in their limousines and enjoying the treasures and delights which are normally well outside of the price range of most tourists and travellers. 

Your usual pro Prayut Chan-o-cha spin about how wonderful the economy is going has nothing to do with the story.

And the story is nothing more than elitist blurb put out by one of Chan-o-cha's puppets Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwannmuang who he appointed using Article 44 in 2016. 

12 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

my wife carries a small rolled up bag in her handbag, for small purchases.  In the car we have some 10 'bags for life' brought over from the UK, that we take to do the weekly shop.  It just takes a bit of forward thinking.  Its not hard. 

Good that you have a wife to do your fetch and carry for you and a car to carry your everlasting bags.

When I specifically go shopping I travel on the bus and take my big reusable bag with me. When I go out on various non shopping trips I don't mind being offered a little bag to carry a few small spur of the moment purchases. Beats carrying them on top of my head under my cap.  

Perhaps I should consider getting a car and a wife to keep stock control of my supply of reusable bags.

BTW, when I was travelling along Phet Kasem Road BKK in a bus yesterday on my way to catch the MRT I witnessed tens of thousands of new unused medium size plastic bags all over the road and blowing in the wind to all quarters. They were like large white snowflakes floating in the air and they went for a few kilometres. Obviously a case of negligence in transportation. So I doubt my little once off bag at the supermarket will make a big difference to the day's usage of plastic bags in Bangkok after all.

2 minutes ago, Chazar said:

surprised  they  dont  think  the  rest of  the  world  should  speak Thai

And I am amazed you don't know there is one person who thinks it should be.........that great visionary Prayut Chan-o-cha.

A part transcript of his speech at the Excellent Youths Awards in 2017.

“The most common language is English for sure. If Thai was a world language, we would have been a powerful country,” Prayuth said as the entire room burst into laughter.

“Is there a chance Thai will become a world language? Yes, if you do what I say! In the future, Thai may become a world language......" 

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/prayuth-thai-will-become-world-language/

52 minutes ago, Lupusthai said:

I'm curious if there is anywhere a listing which "46 major shopping malls and convenience stores" will stop using plastic bags?

Not sure if there is one but if there is you can bet Villa Market is not on it. 

Went there yesterday to buy a few items at the Ploenchit Centre. The checkout chick put three items in one medium size bag and then put a single item into a small bag. I removed the single item from the one bag and put it in with the others.

As an expression of Villa Market's gratitude for my thoughtful action this little charmer gave me the evil eye scowl of death. Such is the manner of Thai customer service.

25 minutes ago, canopy said:

 

Of course not. I am talking about international standards where inspections and testing occurs in stringent countries who care about clean food.

 

You still make it sound so easy from where you are sitting, wherever that might be. Reality seems to escape you. It sounds like you are entrapped in a Thai political/civil service dream world.

To make your idea work all that is needed are tens of thousands of agricultural advisers to go forth into the boondocks and teach all the mum and dad 30 rai farmers how to grow "clean food", at whatever expense, that will meet international certification before it leaves Thailand.

Then if they are lucky they will be rewarded by the high prices for this "clean food" by these unnamed rich countries. Meaning to say, what's left after the middlemen have creamed it off.

11 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

What do you think farmers here have 10,000 rai each and 500 horsepower tractors,your out of touch with farming here.

Average farm size in Thailand is about 30 rai with maybe two or three 1 horsepower buffaloes.

http://www.fftc.agnet.org/library.php?func=view&style=type&id=20110726143050

A year or so ago I kept company with a female English teacher at a vocational school. She spoke good English except for a few common pronunciation errors.

She was telling me the story of how her school director got rid of the qualified foreign English teachers so she could replace them with Filipino teachers. Reason being that she personally received a healthy commission from the employment agency for new Filipino appointees. 

Someone pointed out that the imported Filipino English teachers are the rejects from the call centres applicants.

Corruption and greed is top priority and is killing the education system. 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said on Friday that a bilingual curriculum – in Thai and English – would be in place from kindergarten up at more than 2,000 district schools starting in academic year 2020.

These little kindi tadpoles are going to be busy. Not only will they have a new curriculum for learning computer language and to write computer programmes but they will now have a Thai and English bilingual language curriculum to study up on as well. Good luck kids, the excellence of your teachers will see you through.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/education-ministry-to-push-for-coding-as-third-language-for-thai-students/

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Police acting on a tip from an informant........

No big deal, just daily normal routine.

Police invited to pay professional snitch for news of illegal shipment. Police act on their financial investment and dispossess existing smuggler of illegal E cigs gear and facilitate change of ownership to a new "connected" owner/distributor. Another day in the life of the RTP.

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

86,000 bikes seized since June

86,000 bikes returned after payment of "storage and handling fee" plus legal fines and penalties.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Finance Minister vows more action if baht continues rapid appreciation

Only if rapid appreciation? Gradual appreciation is OK then? Is this gradual enough?

https://longforecast.com/usd-to-bht-today-forecast

The Finance Minister needs to be careful about trying to lower the value of the baht. Some of the wealthy 1% might call it treachery. After all, the no. 1 priority of the Prayut government is to protect and improve the wealth of the elite; even with offshore shopping malls and foreign investment and at the expense of the nation's economy.

"Thailand's top retailer Central Group said on Monday it plans to invest over 20 billion baht in Vienna, Osaka and Turin, capitalising on a strong local currency".

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/thai-retailer-central-group-plans-%24663-mln-overseas-investment-2019-11-03

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

.....a 15-year-old girl was recently fined 5,000 baht for making floating baskets, ordered by undercover copyright police......The Prime Minister said the Department of Intellectual Property has clarified that the girl had been extorted. He instructed the Department of Intellectual Property, the Royal Thai Police and relevant agencies to carry out their work more transparently

Seems like a case of entrapment of a teenager who was oblivious of the need to pay unofficial commissions to the bully boy extortionists working within the agencies involved. 

Birds of a feather stick together............and look after each other's political interests.